Saturday, November 21, 2009

Week 8, Nov 15th Homework: Astronaut, Google Earth and Wonderland

Create our own astronaut in Google Sketchup; refresh your skills; review tutorials. Once we have created the astronaut we had to upload it to Google Earth and Wonderland.

Not the most attractive astronaut but it's original:






















I had a really hard time in Google Sketchup; I had the hardest time giving my Astronaut feet and arms. I looked at Rich K's astronauts feet and liked the way he went about it; so I gave it another try; I spent hours on this thing. In any event; I made a terrible error; before my astronaut had arms and feet; I had made what I had done - a component; it seems as though since I did that, I was unable to go back and add the feet and arms; doesn't matter; I had a difficult time.

Upload to Google Earth was easy; I was wondering why I couldn't choose the location where I wanted it to go? In any event it was uploaded to a random section.

Here it is:















ROCKET LANDED ON GOOGLE SKETCHUP GUY











We then had to upload to Wonderland; not a very user friendly sight; had trouble with getting the avatar to walk; finally figured that out; and was able to walk to different area; saved my astronaut and rocket to the desktop but at first forgot (or didn't know how to save as a kmz file); so I created a post it with my frustrtion.






Again figured it out; but I couldn't get it uploaded to wonderland; I went through all the steps, tried deploying but it would not appear in Wonderland; the more I played the more trouble I got into: now when I log into Wonderland, I get his big black screen; can't seem to see the avatar or the area where I created my post-it.

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